Christopher Travis Rice was born on March 11,1978 and is an American author.
19 Facts About Christopher Rice
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Christopher Rice's parents were novelist Anne Rice and poet Stan Rice; his aunt, Alice Borchardt, was a noted writer of fantasy and historical fiction.
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Christopher Rice had an older sister, Michele, who died from leukemia in 1972 when she was five years old.
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Christopher Rice was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent the first ten years of his childhood in the Castro District.
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Christopher Rice is a 1996 graduate of the Isidore Newman School, which he attended during the same time period as future NFL stars Peyton Manning and Eli Manning.
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Christopher Rice began visiting gay bars and clubs during his senior year of high school, but he did not come out to his parents until he met his first boyfriend.
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Christopher Rice went on to attend Brown University, an experience which inspired his second novel, The Snow Garden.
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Christopher Rice transferred to Tisch School of the Arts where he studied Dramatic Writing.
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Christopher Rice did not graduate from either school; he instead moved to Los Angeles to explore writing screenplays.
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Some of Christopher Rice's works contain descriptions of contemporary American life for the gay male.
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In December 1998, Anne Christopher Rice had a medical crisis and nearly died when she fell into a diabetic coma.
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For many years, Christopher Rice wrote a regular column for the LGBT-related biweekly news magazine The Advocate called "Coastal Disturbances," in which he discussed various topics.
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Early in his career, Christopher Rice distinguished himself by saying that unlike his famous mother, he did not write horror novels, instead considering his books to be thrillers.
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However, as years went by, Christopher Rice became more comfortable experimenting in different genres, exploring his own version of the supernatural with works such as The Heavens Rise, published in 2013, and The Vines.
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In 2012, Christopher Rice launched a streaming Internet radio show called The Dinner Party Show with Eric Shaw Quinn, his producing partner and co-host, who was known for having ghost written two books by celebrity Pamela Anderson and a 1992 novel about gay adoption called Say Uncle.
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In 2014, Christopher Rice announced through his social media channels that he was scheduled to publish several works of erotic romance.
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In 2021, Rice announced a new "acknowledged" pen name devoted to tales of romance between men, C Travis Rice.
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On November 26,2016, Anne Christopher Rice announced that the film and television rights to her entire Vampire Chronicles franchise had reverted to her after unsuccessful attempts to launch them as a film franchise with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment.
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Christopher Rice's announcement included the detail that she and Christopher would be executive producers on a planned TV series based on the franchise.